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Mesa 19.0 Released With Many Improvements To The Open-Source Vulkan/OpenGL Drivers

Mesa 19.0 Released With Many Improvements To The Open-Source Vulkan/OpenGL Drivers

03-13-2019, 03:40 PM

Phoronix: Mesa 19.0 Released With Many Improvements To The Open-Source Vulkan/OpenGL Drivers

Mesa 19.0 has finally been released! It's more than two weeks late, but it should be worth the wait given all the improvements in this quarterly feature update to this open-source graphics driver stack...

Paulo Dias is still active. I wait until he has found time to update his stable PPA.

BTW - maybe it helps to donate a few dollars to the good Paulo ... he deserves it all times. That's why I recently donated something. As you can see on the linked PPA pages you can transfer some money here:
-> https://www.paypal.me/padoka

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You guys need to get up to speed with AUR packages and use Antergos or something. 99% of this is automatable, and it's not even difficult if you put in a few hours making a pkgbuild. PPA's are complete trash, at best, unless it's a terrible PC you don't compile code on. But even then, just run the stable versions and wait.

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You guys need to get up to speed with AUR packages and use Antergos or something. 99% of this is automatable, and it's not even difficult if you put in a few hours making a pkgbuild. PPA's are complete trash, at best, unless it's a terrible PC you don't compile code on. But even then, just run the stable versions and wait.

Ppas offer binary packages that are installed in a minute, full mesa stack takes a very long time to compile and can be difficult to produce 32-bit libraries especially. Steam games support only SteamOS and Ubuntu. With ppa-purge it is easy to switch between repositories. Oibaf ppa udpates to Padoka ppa and purging Padoka ppa returns to Oibaf ppa. Purging Oibaf ppa returns original distro packages.

You destroy your solid state drive with antergos or something when constantly compiling mesa and other stuff.